Former Packers still pursuing the dream

[Patler]

Kyle Murphy has been signed to Texans practice squad. Article said he dealt with a non-football injury since being waived last spring, and has had a number of tryouts in the last two weeks, including the Bears

[gbgary]

i know it's over 24 hrs old but Jermaine Whitehead is free again after a disastrous twitter foray.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...eatening-posts

[Guiness]

i know it's over 24 hrs old but Jermaine Whitehead is free again after a disastrous twitter foray.

that was some kind of a meltdown!

[Joemailman]

Morgan Burnett with a pretty good take on this:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...eatening-posts

Browns safety Morgan Burnett, who also played with Whitehead in Green Bay, said he hoped the safety could find outside support.


"We're going to miss him because that was a guy that played a lot of snaps for us, a guy that was a good teammate in the locker room. I just feel like it was a situation where his emotions got the best of him," Burnett said. "We're going to miss him, but I think for me personally because I played with him in Green Bay, I take it past football and it's just something where I just want to pray for him, wish him the best and get the help that he needs and pray that he gets back on his feet.

"But as a team, just outside of football, just as a bond of brothers, we're going to miss him."

Burnett said he understood that the Browns couldn't tolerate Whitehead's posts.

"We all have to do a job," he said. "We all are held accountable and held to a certain standard no matter where we are within the organization. They stand behind the brand and I think that's just part of being a professional. You have to carry yourself a certain way even at times when you feel like your buttons are being pushed, you still have young people, young kids looking up to us and watching everything we say and the way we move.''

[Fritz]

Mike Daniels left game and said would not return. Foot injury.

...and he still hasn't returned. No word on whether he will suit up against the Bears.

[pbmax]

RapSheet
Sources: The #Browns and center JC Tretter are in agreement on a three-year, $32.5M extension that includes more than $23M guaranteed. Quietly, he’s playing his best football and is among the best in football. Tretter, by the way, went to Cornell, ever heard of it? 💰💰💰

[mraynrand]

They certainly aren’t going to give any money to their tackles.

[Fritz]

RapSheet
Sources: The #Browns and center JC Tretter are in agreement on a three-year, $32.5M extension that includes more than $23M guaranteed. Quietly, he’s playing his best football and is among the best in football. Tretter, by the way, went to Cornell, ever heard of it? 💰💰💰

Cornell was the alma mater of the writer EB White, who wrote for the New Yorker for many years, as well as authoring children's books like Charlotte's Web and my favorite, Stuart Little.

And how about all the Rats on this site who were slavering over the Browns? How's that working out?

I doubt Freddie Kitchens makes it into a second year. But he might be a helluva special teams coach.

[Patler]

Did you notice the former Packer starting at left guard for Carolina?
Greg VanRoten was signed by the Packers as an undrafted rookie, and was with GB for a couple years. He bounced around a bit, but has been starting in Carolina the last two years.

[Joemailman]

Cornell was the alma mater of the writer EB White, who wrote for the New Yorker for many years, as well as authoring children's books like Charlotte's Web and my favorite, Stuart Little.

And how about all the Rats on this site who were slavering over the Browns? How's that working out?

I doubt Freddie Kitchens makes it into a second year. But he might be a helluva special teams coach.

Marcia/Gutey/LaFleur > Dorsey/Eliot Wolf/Highsmith

[pbmax]

Did you notice the former Packer starting at left guard for Carolina?
Greg VanRoten was signed by the Packers as an undrafted rookie, and was with GB for a couple years. He bounced around a bit, but has been starting in Carolina the last two years.

Yep. He was the guy who tried to pull McCaffrey over the goal line on the last play.

Van Rotten.

[texaspackerbacker]

I don't recall him looking that big when he played for the Packers.

[run pMc]

Yep, noticed GVR when they did the lineups...thought he might be a weak link on their line. Their OL held up the pass rush just enough to help Allen have a career day. Then again, Allen escaped a few sacks and was hit/pressured quite a bit, even though he was getting the ball out fast.

[pbmax]

Yep, noticed GVR when they did the lineups...thought he might be a weak link on their line. Their OL held up the pass rush just enough to help Allen have a career day. Then again, Allen escaped a few sacks and was hit/pressured quite a bit, even though he was getting the ball out fast.

Some of Allen's success and non-exposure is his team's willingness to commit to McCaffrey plus the opposition being dead set on not letting McCaffrey beat them.

EDIT: thanks to tex for the edit suggestion

[texaspackerbacker]

not